If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.